Project Details

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The acrylic on wood panel paintings presented are part of a series initiated at a month-long artist residency in 2007 at the Jentel Foundation in Northeast Wyoming; the beautifully rugged and ever-changing landscape of the area served as both observational and conceptual inspiration for the resulting work.

I approach the work from the point of view of materiality, process and freely exploring the plasticity of the acrylic media. Working topographically, paint is layered, flooded and removed often mimicking the natural effects of erosion and sedimentation. The haze produced by regional forest fires filtered into the work becoming a veil that seductively separated that which is clear, spatial and present from that which is obscured, absent or diminished. Force and matter combine to generate images conceived without intentionality and suggest a loss of boundaries—those areas being transition zones between control and chaos, and the internal and external realities of existence. Geometric stripes aid in quantifying and organize the visual information presented, a mapping system, of sorts. The graphic gestalt of the stripes allows for the perception of patterns and spaces that were painted without a predetermined outcome in mind—chaos organized.